His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
JAMES JOYCEPeople trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
More James Joyce Quotes
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A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother’s love is not.
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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
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I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.
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It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
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The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
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Love loves to love love.
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In the particular is contained the universal.
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To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?
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I am proud to be an emotionalist.
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One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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